From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Upgrading to LGPLv3? Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:03:16 +0100 Message-ID: <1185015796.4504.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <878x9g80xn.fsf@chbouib.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1185015984 11518 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2007 11:06:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:06:24 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 21 13:06:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ICCmx-00047w-4G for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:06:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICCmw-0006gD-RK for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICCmu-0006g8-Hz for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ICCms-0006fb-Lk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ICCms-0006fT-Dk for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ambient.dashsystems.com ([216.27.85.7] helo=kettle.ambient-hosting.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ICCmr-0001iM-Tn for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (ambient-hosting.net [10.1.6.1]) by kettle.ambient-hosting.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94DFC880A7 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 07:06:12 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 015481184FF; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:03:16 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.11.5 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6657 Archived-At: Hi Greg, On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 09:34 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > I didn't infer that [LGPLv3 was incompatible with GPLv2] from the link. Look again; it is there (lower-left box of http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility). The only reason that LGPLv2 libraries can be used in GPLv2 programs is the clause in LGPLv2 that its code may be converted to be under GPLv2. > A more important question is the continued ability to use guile in > proprietary programs. Of course that will be the case. Cheers, Andy. -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel